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Craigslist.org finally expanded! I checked craig's today and found they added a ton of new cities, they are categorized by state now. From on June 18, 2006 at 10:09 p.m..


The Machine Detective An interactive site for early childhood students studying Science and simple machines. Has links to experiments, glossary, and other websites of interest. From EdNA Online on June 18, 2006 at 10:08 p.m..


PhD Scholarship - APAI: The effect of water chlorination disinfection byproducts in wastewater effluent on the aquatic environment, Griffith University A PhD scholarship is available at APAI rates for the project mentioned above. It is offered by Dr Glen Shaw of the School of Public Health, Griffith University. The student will also be associated with Griffith University’s Centre for Aquatic Processes and Pollution. The student will also be supported by the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment’s Wastewater Program. This project is driven be industry concern about the effect of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in chlorinated effluent on living organisms in the receiving environment. Significant support for the project has been provided by the From EdNA Online on June 18, 2006 at 10:08 p.m..


Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority - Equivalent Qualifications The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority issues a Statement of Equivalent Qualification to people who have educational qualifications from overseas that are judged by the Authority to be equivalent to Year 11 or Year 12 level. Comprehensive lists are provided of equivalent qualifications from other countries for both Year 11 and Year 12. From EdNA Online on June 18, 2006 at 10:08 p.m..


Do you use IE? I bet I can tell you what in on your clipboard! With a simple line of code you can display (at a minimum) what is on a person’s clipboard that uses IE with standard security set. I have also included directions on how to turn it off. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:31 p.m..


"The Zelda Timeline" If there's one thing in the video game world that's been twisted and misunderstood more than anything else, it's the timeline for the Legend of Zelda series. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:31 p.m..


Social Constructivism This article written by Kim, B., of the University of Georgia, discusses Social Constructivism. What it is and how it works in reality. Includes a small flash animation demonstrating how constructivism can work. From EdNA Online on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 p.m..


Educators Cheer Gates' Move Microsoft founder Bill Gates is relinquishing his day to day responsiblities with the company to focus on his charitable organisation called the 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.' From EdNA Online on June 18, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java. From on June 18, 2006 at 7:13 p.m..


New System to Thwart Unwanted Video and Still Digital Photography Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to stymie unwanted use of video or still cameras. From on June 18, 2006 at 7:13 p.m..


Microsoft losing its edge; will worsen with Gates Departure Ballmer may lack the strong leadership needed to tackle the challenges facing Microsoft. "The direction they've laid out has not impressed investors," says some analyst, "We need the old Microsoft with the direction and vision they had - Gates's vision." From on June 18, 2006 at 7:13 p.m..


IBM Makes AJAX Play for Open Source Collaboration "IBM announced plans this week to contribute what it calls "key intellectual assets" to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software developers adopt and share best practices for AJAX software development. The technology contributions will extend the code already available in the Dojo Toolkit." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:30 p.m..


Latest cure for cancer: 500 oranges Is mainstream medical science ignoring an inexpensive, painless, readily available cure for cancer? The government nutrition researcher has published new evidence that suggests vitamin C can work like chemotherapy - only better. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:30 p.m..


How Many Miles per Gallon Does Your CPU Get? We might all be plenty happy to ogle over the next gigahertz revolution, but CNet recently pointed out that rating processor performance alone is becoming a useless measure. We can make the processors fast, the quesiton is, can we do it without burning through the mother board (and the electric bill). From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Proof: 'artificial' light causes breast cancer Sleep in the dark, and you could reduce the chances of getting breast cancer. Dramatic new research shows the risks to women of artificial lights at night, in or out of bed. The research is "the first proof" of a link between artificial light at night and cancer. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Sexy robots and the future of robotic ethics The race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. Dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Henrik Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years”. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Photoshop howto: Make your very own planet. I'm going to teach you how to make a planet that looks somewhat realistic although, in the end, whether it looks realistic or not is entirely up to you and the way you play with settings. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


HOWTO: Homemade headphones Here are a pair of homemade headphones, all the way from the Takoradi Technical Institute, Takoradi, Ghana. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


PhpBB 3 Beta 1 Released We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 Beta1 package. With this first beta release we are officially starting the beta testing phase. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


DIY Optical Disc Duplicator The design is pretty simple and uses gravity for downward movement, so you don’t have to worry about a motor slamming the head into the desk. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Video Demonstration of Real-World Motion Tracking “ACCESS” is basically an “art installation where a computer-controlled spotlight would track and follow unsuspecting persons in a public space”. t performed rich statistical analysis of optical flow information to robustly track targets in a closed-world environment From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Cracking a virus protection shield Scientists reveal the structure of a protein that packages the viral genome and helps viruses to replicate while avoiding human immune reactions. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Audiovox Home Décor: Speakers In Disguise Speaker junkies like showing off their high-end loudspeakers as much as listening to them, and chic design with form over function is certainly a factor in why Bose sells so well. But plenty of folks would rather hide their bookshelf satellites and tuck away that big subwoofer into seemingly everyday objects. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Top Ten Strangest Mac Mods A lot of hard work was put into these strange and cool Mac modifications. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Macbook : Performance Test [Video] Are you tired of reviews? Do you want to see how the Macbook really runs LIVE? This video will show you how the famous macbook runs with his native apps. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Dutch Company Unveils Motorcycle that Runs on Vegetable Oil Their website says that their diesel motorcyle will run on vegetable oil and that they will be taking orders for the Track Dieselpowered Motorcycle in October 2006. It doesn't look like they have a complete bike yet, the pictures of it are all computer generated. They have a short video clip of an incomplete bike being started up. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Japan smitten by love of cute - does the country need to grow up? Cute is cool in Japan. Look anywhere and everywhere: Cartoon figures dangle from mobile phones, waitresses bow in frilly maid outfits, bows adorn bags, even police departments boast cuddly mascots. Sceptics say Japan's pursuit of cute is a sign of an infantile mentality. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


iPod shuffle catching fire (how not to fix an ipod) Story about a guy who tried to fix his iPod shuffle and it ended up with sparks, flames and smoke flying out of it. I'm just surprised how much of the ipod melted. Its made of quite tough plastic. Think he must have got into the battery or something. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Hydrogen Hybrid Prius Cars Arrive in Golden State Five experimental Toyota Prius sedans were delivered to the City of Santa Monica, California, on Thursday. Why experimental? All the hybrids are fueled by hydrogen gas instead of gasoline as part of the South Coast Air Quality Management District's plan to educate the public on hydrogen as a future fuel source. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


How to run full Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper A how to for using the QEMU virtual PC to load up a full install of Windows XP SP2 under Ubuntu Dapper. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Game Console Energy Usage Comparison While it’s obvious that an Xbox 360 would have higher energy demands then a Playstation 1, the curious question is by how much? Even more importantly is the question of whether your console might be costing you money while you sleep. Preposterous you say? Actually quite the opposite! From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


How Mac OS X starts up. A rundown of what exactly a Mac does when booting up. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Report: 86% of E-Mail Traffic is Spam "Nearly every e-mail consumers receive -- some 86 percent -- is considered spam, either malicious or simply "unwanted content" today, a new study provided to TechNewsWorld demonstrates. As if that wasn't enough of a headache for corporate IT departments, instant messaging spam soared by 500 percent last month." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Hydrogen Buses for Football Fans at the FIFA World Cup in Berlin Football fans in Berlin coming or going from the Olympic Stadium or the Tegel Airport may catch one of the first two hydrogen buses in the Berlin bus network. The two MAN vehicles will be joined by 12 others to create a fleet of 14 hydrogen buses which, along with smaller fleets in other sities. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Interactive Map of Alternative Energy Around the World A pretty nice map by Popular Science of various alternative energies and how they are utilized around the world. Notice that most are in Europe. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


The war over DRM is heating up, Apple in the cross-hairs. A good number of European countries and consumer advocate groups are fighting proprietary schemes that some are calling "Defective by Design." Apple is fighting back calling plans to force it to allow interoperability "state-sponsored piracy," and has threatened to pull out of the French market. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


iRobot releases documentation for the Roomba SCI serial protocol. There have already been some interesting things done with the Roomba from having it play frogger in traffic to Roomba fights. iRobot has just made modifying it easier by releasing the protocols which let you control the motors, LEDs and speakers, retrieve data from the sensors. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Australian Army Called to Fight the Toxic Cane Toad They carry a venom so powerful it can kill crocodiles, snakes and other predators in minutes. All attempts to fight the spread of the cane toad have so far failed. No-one is quite sure of the most effective way to stop them. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


ReviewLinux.Com: GParted LiveCD 0.2.5-1 A Must Have Disc! Excellent review on GParted LiveCD 0.2.5-1 ( Gnome Partition Editor ). This review works you through the process of repartitioning a WindowsXP NTFS hard drive. The LiveCD is a must have for all Linux users. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 6:02 p.m..


Japanese Language Teachers Association (SA) annual conference An annual conference for teachers of Japanese, hosted by the Japanese Language Teachers Association of South Australia and DECS Professional Learning Service, Japanese. From EdNA Online on June 18, 2006 at 6:01 p.m..


Why lottos and terrorists matter Why are we willing to fight terrorism, though statistically, terrorist attacks almost never happen; though we barely lift a finger to help save people from routine traffic accidents, backyard pool drownings, and asthma, which happen dailt?. Why people buy lottery tickets? This is both sensible and entertaining audio. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


GameSpot Readers' Choice Top 10 NES Games GameSpot asked readers to send in their choices for the top NES games of all time. After tallying almost 12,000 votes, these were the victors. (Note, this list is different from the other top 10 list, not a dupe) From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


How to Make Colossal Structures Look Like Toys in Photographs In an artist's photographs, the six-acre Roman Colosseum resembles an upside-down soda cap, Las Vegas and Rome look like model-train landscapes, and an 80,000-ton boat seems as if a child could pluck it from the water. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


MicroSoft OneCare: Sleazy Protection Racket? Depending on how you feel about Microsoft, its new Windows Live OneCare security service either amounts to a welcome helping hand or a particularly sleazy protection racket. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


Very Difficult Analytical Puzzles Can you solve these? From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


Hard Drive Case Mod (w/ pics) "Got a box of old hard drives doing nothing? Put them to work housing your new computer components." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


Man Turns Apartment Into The Starship Enterprise After Wife Leaves Him Tony Alleyne spent $11,300 to convert his one-bedroom apartment into the starship enterprise, complete with a command console and windows shaped to look like portholes. Alleyne is 48 year old and lives in the apartment alone, because his wife left him for another man. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


NASA To Launch Shuttle Against Safety Recommendations Despite the space agency's chief engineer and safety officers recommendation against a shuttle liftoff attempt this summer, the decision is made to go ahead on July 1. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


Linux Kernel 2.6.17 released! Linux v2.6.17 had been released. Changelog at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17 From digg on June 18, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..


Virgin Galactic Updates Plans For SpaceShipTwo "They revealed that SpaceShipTwo will be much larger than SS1, carrying 6 passengers and 2 pilots. Once they fire their new hybrid rocket motors, the vehicles will be capable of reaching an altitude of 140 km. Brave passengers will experience 5 minutes of weightlessness, where they might be allowed to float around the cabin." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


IMDB for Comic Books ComicBookDB.com is the fastest-growing comic database on the web. The first goal of this project is to catalog every comic, graphic novel, manga, creator, character and anything else that could possibly relate to the field of comics. And it is built by anyone and everyone who wants to help. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


Show Me That New GNOME Main Menu GNOME's New Main Menu Revealed From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


Canada Finds Bird Flu Case, Plans Further Testing "Canada has detected a case of H5 avian flu in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island and plans further testing over the weekend to determine whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, government officials announced on Friday." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, And Why So all my childs problems with learning and behavior come from the boredom of being schooled (imprisioned) for the first 12 years of his life? From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


Google Checkout: very close to launching Google is about to launch a service called "Google Checkout" (not GBuy) to compete with PayPal for website transactions. Garret Rogers from ZDNet does some digging and finds evidence the service is closer to launching that you think! From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


Creative unofficially announces their mysterious new MP3 Player Supposedly this will be their answer to the iPod Nano. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


Astonishing Two-stroke illusion explanation Flash version of this incredible illusion explained clearly. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 5:30 a.m..


Vonage In Trouble? Analyst Richard Greenfield tells Bloomberg.com that when he called Vonage to cancel his account, he was offered a discounted rate if he would stay. Apparently that offer- presumably made incognito - had a major effect. Based in part on a trend gleaned from that call, the analyst downgraded his assessment on Vonage stock from "neutral" to "sell." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 2:30 a.m..


Almost Every South Park Episode Online Almost every episode from seasons 1 through 10 with no commercials. Amazing. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 2:30 a.m..


US Govt. Plans Super Highway from Canada to Mexico! Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 2:30 a.m..


New Diggnation intro video! This is the new diggnation intro that debuted tonight in episode #50 (which was released to all). Enjoy! From digg on June 18, 2006 at 2:30 a.m..


Chuck Norris Lawsuit Some kid is about to get a nice legal round-house kick to the face by Chuck Norris and his legal team. I'm sure glad I'm not him. lol From digg on June 18, 2006 at 2:30 a.m..


Gas Giants Gobbled Up Most of Their Moons During planetary formation, rocky moons grew out of the solid material surrounding each planet. As these moons grew larger, leftover gas slowed them down, and they fell into the planet to be consumed. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Japan's Broadband Under Attack...FROM CROWS! Tokyo's futuristic image as the world's most technologically advanced broadband internet-enabled city is under attack from a vicious but decidedly low-tech foe: the crow. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Top 10 Web Dev Libraries List of 12 complete with descriptions. Includes JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, and CSS Libraries. These libraries should be in any web developers bookmarks. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


How Linux can compete with Windows Vista At first glance, you'd think an operating system like GNU/Linux that installs in less hard drive space and requires a less-beefy computer than Windows Vista would be an automatic sales superstar. Not so! If anything, Linux needs to become more hardware-hungry in order to compete effectively with Vista. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Satellite Guidance for the Visually Impaired A prototype satellite navigation system accurate enough to direct vision-impaired pedestrians to their destination has recently been successfully demonstrated in Madrid. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Research Team Produces First 3D Images of the Interior of a Fuel Cell As gasoline prices top $3 a gallon in major cities, the drive toward increasing energy efficiency and reducing air pollution has accelerated, and the development of fuel cells has become a major focus worldwide. Knowing how fuel cells work is key to improving their performance and reducing the cost of their production. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


How To Remotely Monitor Windows Memory Usage Adding extra RAM when your machine doesn't really need it is pointless. Here's how to tell when it's time. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


15 Exercises to Know A Programming Language: Part 1 The fastest way to learn a new language is to write some code. Here are 15 exercises from veteran programmer Larry O'Brian to kick start your studies. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Microsoft Lieutenants Look Ahead, Hoping to Avoid Other Companies' Mistakes "Finding the company's way in the new era will largely fall to the successors to Bill Gates, who will leave his day-to-day role in two years." From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Mass. school punishes students with electric shocks "They can be shocked for behaviors including ’failure to maintain a neat appearance’, ‘stopping work for more than 10 seconds’, ‘interrupting others’, ‘nagging’, ‘whispering and/or moving conversation away from staff’, ‘slouch in chair’ '' From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Lawsuit Over Bought Keywords On Google's Search Engine Lawsuit accuses Yahoo, others of buying trademark keywords on Google's search engine. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Animal Studies Suggest Vegetables May Reduce Hardening Of Arteries New research suggests one reason vegetables may be so good for us – a study in mice found that a mixture of five common vegetables reduced hardening of the arteries by 38 percent compared to animals eating a non-vegetable diet. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Capcom Sends Customer Barbeque Utensils! A customer recently wrote in to Capcom customer service with some gripes about their recent PSP release of Monster Hunter Freedom. The next week he received a barbeque utensil kit from them. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


How One Spammer Got BILLIONS of Pages into Google in 3 Weeks One Romanian company has taken spamming Google to new heights. Learn how they got over 7 billion spam-filled pages into Google in under 1 month. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Apple's Windows site mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp Apple's Windows page on their 'Get a Mac' site now mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


DIY Widescreen Projectors Here’s an excellent home DIY project; a widescreen projector for the ultimate home theatre system – on a budget. The most difficult part of the project is the stripping of the 15” LCD display, which isn’t easy because of the fragile edge connectors and flat cables. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


New music headphones don't actually produce sound! A Japanese company called Morito has launched a new business to sell bone conduction stereo headphones! From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


ESRB to Game Companies: Lying will cost you ONE MILLION dollars! The ESRB president said that in the event of any future cases of publishers not being completely honest about the content of their games, the ESRB would be empowered to impose fines up to US$1 million for the most serious infractions, and even suspend rating services. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


True stories from game testing: the industry's dirty back door "When you talk to many gamers about what the most important job is when developing a game, few people will bring up game QA testing. It's an important job, though, and he testers have it tough: those poor folks who spend their days and nights locked in some basement trying to find all the ways they can break a product." -ars From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Open Source Windows Clone ReactOS releases 0.3 RC1 ReactOS is a free software implementation of Microsoft Windows. You can test it without installing by using a Live CD, or Images to be run by emulators. It already works with Software like Microsoft Office and Nero Burning Rom and games like Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Japanese Parking Lot Works Like Jukebox (video) This Japanese parking lot is quite remarkable. It kind of works like a jukebox. Only this time your car is fetched instead of the latest track of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Social Doodling with AJAX. View the 6400 pixel tall Mario at mydrawings.com What happens when a lot of people get together and draw something on a virtual canvas? Check it out and see for yourself. Aside from Mario, there is a 12000 pixel tall Zelda. Drawing is accomplished with JavaScript using the canvas element for Firefox and Safari. There is a compatibility layer for Internet Explorer. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


How to enable remote desktop - Remotely Remote desktop is a nice feature of Windows that lets you remotely work on the system as if you were there. Many times you find that you need it enabled - but the machine you are trying to access is tough to reach. This is a simply way to remotely enable it. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Amazingly Scary In-depth Look at Scientology! I researched Scientology for my college graduate studies project and here's what I found. They are a dangerous cult that employ spies and a variety of dirty tricks to intimidate, scare, and threaten their critics, all the while bilking million of dollars from their followers. A video follows. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


Drugs firm blocks blindness cure Company will only seek licence for medicine that costs 100 times more and is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market. From digg on June 18, 2006 at 12:30 a.m..


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